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What would cause there to be 23 levels of stone between the first and second caverns, when the world gen setting is only 1?

I thought I'd missed the 2nd cavern and hit the third, but then there was another cavern underneath it...  I did a reveal with dfhack, it really is 23 layers of solid stone, no sneaky pipe trailing up or anything.

Unfortunately you can only specify the Minimum number of levels, you have no control over the maximum.

IMAO the easy answer to the "Magma Sea" & "Same Embark" questions is to have a world generated with a suitable embark that contains a volcano or at least a magma pipe that reaches the 3rd cavern, at least one cavern should also have plant life, bonus points for cotton-candy sword (I assume those still happen? I'm just getting back into DF since IIRC .31.18).

Then once the embark site has been found, the world gen params can be posted with instructions for how to find the specified embark, or the world with a note saved on the embark site uploaded to the DFFD (the note to be saved by a preliminary embark somewhere else entirely after the note is made).

That way everyone has the same basic embark, & access to magma, but can still build their dwarf teams as they like.

I do think a post embark "prospect hell" output should be provided if possible though.

Quote from: Japa on May 28, 2012, 06:14:53 am

You can copy and paste from the DFhack window. just right click the title bar, and do edit->mark.

... or use "dfhack-run prospect"

Thank you, both.

Personally I find that if I'm embarking on a River it's worth disabling Aquifers (Install the Lazy Newb Pack, use the included tool to turn off Aquifers. I also tend to disable "Exotics" meaning that everything that used to require the bugged[?] Dungeon Master to tame is now tameable the same way dogs are).

Quote from: JAFANZ on September 10, 2011, 10:52:11 pm

You should probably allow for a year between when you breach the caverns & when you can expect to start harvesting your tree farm.

This suggests you breach the caverns before you start digging your tree farm.

The trees won't start growing until you've breached the caverns and they've got a place to grow in the first place, so unless you're planning on harvesting trees directly from the caverns themselves while you wait for your tree farm to mature, you should probably dig the tree farm first (which shouldn't take long if you're digging in soil).

AIUI though, the "Spores" are active from the instant you breach a live cavern, so if you breach the cavern 1st, then when you start to dig your treefarm, they'll have a shot at starting to grow even before it's complete.

You should probably allow for a year between when you breach the caverns & when you can expect to start harvesting your tree farm.

This suggests you breach the caverns before you start digging your tree farm.

On the plus side, you could theoretically then start logging the cavern straight away too...

Quote from: askovdk on September 08, 2011, 01:24:38 am

Pastures are excellent for keeping animals where you want them. They are designated as a zones.
You will have to assign animals to them individually, but my experience is that they even improve the FPS.

Would be nice to have an auto-assign pasture.  I get random animals added/born all the time and some end up dead due to me missing that they were added.

Have you considered a Fence?

May I suggest hitting the DF Map Archive & browsing the "Points of Interest" for Pump Stacks?

Here's one that's already built, which unfortunately won't directly show you where you need to remove the extra floors required under the actual pumps (so that power transmission is handled by the pumps themselves, saving you from having to install extra power generation & transmission).

That any help?